List of terrorist incidents, 1984
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1984.
The Rajneeshee cult spreads salmonella in salad bars at ten restaurants in The Dalles, Oregon to influence a local election. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized.[1] See also 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
March 7: three killed and nine injured in the bombing of a civilian bus in Ashdod.- April 2: 48 people are wounded by a machine gun attack on a crowded shopping mall in Jerusalem.
August 17: One soldier killed, 6 soldiers and 3 civilians wounded by the PKK attack to a gendarmeire outpost in Eruh, Siirt. This was the first paramiliter attack og PKK.
September 20: U.S. embassy annex bombed in Beirut killing 20.
October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: five are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
October 31: Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army's entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar to flush out Sikh extremists who were using the temple as a base for their operations.
December 23: A bomb placed on the Naples-Milan Express train 904 explodes in the same tunnel as the Italicus Expressen massacre, killing 17 and wounding 250. The attack is attributed to mafia.
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- ^ Carol Eisenberg: Agroterrorism - Behind this very real threat, Newsday.com, December 15, 2006
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